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These approaches overlap, as we’ll see: reducing cardiovascular risk by targeting specific lipoproteins (cholesterol) may also reduce Alzheimer’s disease risk, for example, though not cancer. The steps we take to improve metabolic health and prevent type 2 diabetes almost certainly reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and Alzheimer’s

He and his colleagues noticed that heart attack patients often had both high fasting glucose levels and high triglycerides, as well as elevated blood pressure and abdominal obesity. The more of these boxes a patient checked, the greater their risk of cardiovascular disease. In the 1980s, Reaven labeled this collection of related disorders “Syndrome

Heart disease is actually more strongly associated with inflammation than with cholesterol level. Coronary